Learn about six revolutions that transformed society and challenged the status quo, from America’s fight for independence and ...

Hundreds of so-called vampires were discovered in a small town in northern Poland, with the bizarre burial practices shedding ...

Most people have heard of Guy Fawkes, the most famous participant in the Gunpowder Plot. But Fawkes didn’t work alone ...

From Buddha’s tooth to Muhammad’s beard to anything involving Jesus Christ and his crucifixion, holy relics are highly sought ...

Tony's life changed forever when he witnessed a UFO flying over his rural village. 60 years on, Tony's close encounter has become an obsession. Meanwhile, pilot David presents photographic evidence of ...

The Bulgarian mystic Baba Vanga, often called the ‘Balkan Nostradamus’ is known for her eerie and often cryptic predictions ...

‘In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.’ The Allies had hoped their decoy plans might buy them two weeks, seven was unthinkable. Sign up now to ...

The US customs of dressing up and trick-and-treating at Halloween have since spread globally, but similar, centuries-old traditions are to be found all over the world ...

Hitler believed the Soviets to be his natural ideological enemy and intended to conquer the country, enslave or exterminate the ‘subhuman’ native Slavic people.

Ross Kemp travels to New York to explore the UK’s mafia connections. He meets Salvatore ‘Crazy Sal’ Polisi, a 1970s mafia enforcer, who reveals how British bootleggers in the 1920s helped build the ...

The French Revolution of 1789 is perhaps the most famous part of French history – both for the high hopes that inspired it and the Reign of Terror that followed it ...

The Olympics is the most popular sporting event in the world, with athletes from all across the globe coming together to represent their country in their respective discipline. The governing bodies ...